William Arterburn

Keiji Asakura

William Arterburn
Firm: Studio Outside, Dallas
Education: BLA, Louisiana State University; MBA, Southern Methodist University
Texas Chapter
Category: Works

With a career spanning four decades, William Tary Arterburn is an inspiration to students and fellow practitioners. He has expanded the profession through community involvement, academic participation, professional mentorship and has shared his high ideals of ethical practice to clients. He has a particular mastery of extending patterns, textures and ideas to make interior and exterior spaces cohesive continuums. He has rewarded the profession with continued efforts to be an invaluable, tireless practitioner, teacher and leader. The excellence of his environmental and residential work has earned his firm recognition with dozens of awards from the ASLA and others.

Keiji Asakura
Firm: Asakura Robinson Company, LLC, Houston
Education: BSLA, Cal Poly Pomona
Texas Chapter
Category: Service

Keiji Asakura devotes himself to a profusion of service projects while also forging a distinguished professional career. He instigates creative ideas, dedicates time, and shares expertise consistently with significant civic impact. He understands that lasting results depend on the enthusiastic shared commitments of many stakeholders. His thousands of hours of pro bono work have demonstrated the invaluable role progressive landscape architecture and ecological planning play in the creation of vital, livable and beautiful cities. His extensive community-development initiatives in Houston's widely diverse neighborhoods have made people's lives better, and their understanding of the value of landscape architectural excellence deeper.